FP97: Dialog Boxes Show Incorrect Desktop If Running NT 4.0

• Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack

SYMPTOMS

When you use FrontPage Editor or FrontPage Explorer and Windows NT 4.0, the default user's desktop may be displayed rather than your logon desktop in the following dialog boxes:

FrontPage Editor

   - Open (on the File menu, click Open)
   - Save As (on the File menu, click Save As)

FrontPage Explorer

   - Add File to Import List
   - Browse for Folder
   - Export Selected As

RESOLUTION

To force these dialog boxes to display your logon desktop, use the following steps:

1. Repeat the operation which produces one of the dialog boxes referred to above.

2. Use the dialog box to open the following directory:

         %USERPROFILE%\desktop
   

NOTE: To use the Windows NT command prompt, point to Programs on the Start menu, and then click Command Prompt.

Once you have focused the FrontPage Editor dialog box on the correct desktop, it will remain focused there until you exit the FrontPage Editor. Once you have focused the FrontPage Explorer Add file to Import List dialog box on the correct folder, it will remain focused there until you exit the FrontPage Explorer. The "Browse for Folder" dialog box does not retain the setting of the last folder location you browsed to.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem FrontPage 97.The problem was corrected in FrontPage 98 for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem occurs only when you start FrontPage Editor or FrontPage Explorer from the toolbar buttons within FrontPage Explorer or FrontPage Editor.

The Open and Save As dialog boxes will display the correct desktop if you start FrontPage Explorer or FrontPage Editor from a shortcut, if you double-click the executable file, or if you start either program from the Windows NT command prompt.

NOTE: This problem does not occur if you are using Windows 95.

To use the Save As dialog box, click Save As on the File menu in FrontPage Editor, and then click As File.